I noticed that as well – i have “online-poker” and a couple other things on my blacklist, but spammers can still post their BS on my blog – even if the exact phrase “online-poker” exists in their name or URI 🙁 Doesn’t seem to be much use to be honest…. or am I doing it wrong?
If you leave blank lines, that might cause a problem…I’m not sure. Try clearing it and re-pasting them again.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Spam_Words
James: You deleted your spam words list from your site above, probably when you were doing your upgrade and forgot to reupload it.
In my case, it was before the upgrade and the exact spam words existed not only in the blacklist but also in the moderation list. Is it possible that there may be a conflict if they are in both places? Whatever the case, I had not had spam for a month until today, and this a** is bypassing the filtration system.
Sorry, I didn’t think anyone was still using it. It’s back up now, and I’ve updated it.
http://www.macmanx.com/wordpress/bad.txt (I’m not responsible for any psychological damage sustained by the use of this list.)
On topic, I am still using HashCash with v1.5, as I just don’t want to deal with comments that are directly submitted to wp-comments-post.php. No problems and no spam so far.
Thanks James. Might as well make it a page in WP, don’t you think? 😉
Cool list macmanx,
I tend to put a period after the words in my list – the thinking being because it is a blacklist, I don’t want to limit legitimate use of some of the words in the list – like casino for example – in and of itself an inocuous word.
However, followed by a period, either it is at the end of a sentence, or it is spam ie xxx.casino.tld
It seems to be working quite well for me, no spams so far – no comments about casinos either mind 😉
Tom
“Might as well make it a page in WP, don’t you think?”
With those keywords?! Heck no! ^_-
